mobile payments News

Samsung Pay, the South Korean tech giant's mobile payments service, has just reached its one year anniversary. The service has proved to be popular with consumers in the US and Korea and is already very close to passing the 100 million transactions mark.

Brooklyn - PayPal is well-known for processing payments — $600 million daily — but it has much loftier goals, according to its president and CEO Dan Schulman: it intends to become a multi-service, global financial behemoth.

Google has announced a limited trial of a new mobile payments app that lets you pay for something in a store with nothing more than your voice. The system requires your phone to be present but doesn’t force you to pick it up.

An update to Android Pay today adds support for using the system to buy things from within apps. Google says it is the "next step" in developing Android Pay, now accepted in over 1 million locations across the U.S.

Omaha - Square has been doing quite well in the mobile payments business, and the company is on the edge of going public. As is expected, the company is allowing potential investors to examine the risks and uncertainties it has to contend with.

T-Mobile is hoping you will bank on their latest offering. The fourth largest provider of mobile services in the U.S. is now offering a Visa debit card with banking features.

This week PayPal's Asia Pacific division took a leap forward in online payment system technology – one that could change the way you pay for nearly everything.

The poise and promise of mobile payments continue to drive new partnerships across the vast commercial landscape of the United States.

On Thursday, an ongoing technical glitch is costing Apple dearly at an untold number of its retail stores throughout the United States.

If it's a name you're not yet familiar with in the fast-growing realm of mobile payments, that may change in dramatic fashion - and soon,

On Friday, the NFC Times reported that Visa Global Head of Mobile Product Bill Gajda was relieved of his duties at the company.

The 2013 All Star Hoops Festival is getting some major support from an all star in the growing world of mobile payments.

Small businesses and entrepreneurs may be scratching their itch for mobile payments by adopting today's leading technologies, but they still have fleas - as in, flea markets.

It's been a busy summer of mobile payments industry news and developments and there's no indication the news cycle will slow any time soon.

Taxi cabs have been cruising the United States helping passengers traverse the landscape for close to a century. And for most of that 100 year period, cash and coin have been the only compensation taxi drivers could accept.

Whenever the need to pay a bill arises today, there always seems to be a convenient nearby solution made possible by mobile technology.

On Tuesday, customer engagement analytics firm Symphony EYC published the results of a fascinating new food-centric survey.

News came to light on Thursday that online retail giant Amazon may soon release a mobile payment solution for merchants and consumers.

On Tuesday, Javelin Strategy and Research sent a buzz through the world of mobile payments upon the publication of their annual retail point-of-sale update and forecast, a report which evaluates the actual and forecast changes in the retail POS market.

According to published reports that likely don't please the executives at mobile payments company Square, it looks like plenty of Starbucks baristas are having trouble completing transactions with Square's mobile payments solution.

Mobile payments are growing in popularity and prevalence at a pace must faster than what even the most bullish analysts originally anticipated.

In 2010 the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) in Washington D.C. initiated its new pay-by-phone parking system. The intent of this system was to eliminate the need for drivers to have change handy to feed into parking meters.